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OKX (formerly OKEx) is a major centralized cryptocurrency exchange offering spot and derivatives trading, a Web3 wallet, and related digital asset services.
Global Ledger counts $187.75 billion of high-risk exposure across 99 crypto exchanges from 2021 to 2025, in a report shared with crypto.news. Measured as a share of deposits, the ten biggest venues differ widely.
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OKX marketing chief Haider Rafique plans to leave by the end of December, Bloomberg reported on October 15, citing people familiar with the matter. One departure is thin evidence of turnover at a company valued at $25 billion after ICE's investment.
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Binance is considering offering exposure to Hong Kong, South Korean, Taiwanese and Brazilian stocks, co-CEO Richard Teng told Fortune. Tokenized stocks total $3 billion worldwide against $34 trillion traded on Binance in the previous year, Cryptobriefing reported.
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ASIC has opened consultation on CP 392, which offers crypto platforms three alternative capital models, with feedback due Nov. 27. Final standards are due in March 2027, at most 38 days before the law takes effect on April 8.
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The SEC unveiled a five-year exemption for stock tokens two days after the Senate's failed CLARITY cloture vote. TD Cowen cautions that agency rules like it are the easiest to rescind, so firms building on it carry that risk.
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Binance will close its bitcoin mining pool on Nov. 10 after its hashrate fell about 65% to roughly 9.2 EH/s, leaving miners four weeks to move. Foundry USA, AntPool and F2Pool hold 64.2% of hashrate, and the 9.2 EH/s left is under 1% of it.
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Perpetuals.com filed a notice on Wednesday to run a tokenized U.S. stock venue under the SEC's five-year exemption, the second company to do so. Trading could begin in mid-November at the earliest. So far the exemption has drawn two sets of plans.
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MNX, built by Manifold Markets, launched futures on OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek and Moonshot that expire at end-2027 and allow 3x leverage. Settlement may differ from what private shares fetch, so a holder is betting on the exit rule as well as the company.
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IMF research finds more than 85% of overnight moves in tokenized U.S. stocks show up in the listed shares within five minutes of the open. The fund still wants ownership rules settled before a market this thin grows much larger.
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Bitcoin traded near $84,025 on Oct. 12, up 1.3% in 24 hours, as shorts made up $39.61 million of $46.68 million in liquidations, per CoinGlass. ETF inflows on Oct. 9 replaced only 2.9% of the Oct. 7-8 outflows, and the seven-day loss of about 3.3% is still open.
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Binance XRP/USDT turnover fell 78.6% over the completed October 8-10 sessions while the closing price rose 1.6%, CryptoSlate reported. Binance and Bybit open interest was still below its October 8 level on October 11, and CryptoSlate sees no clear evidence of sustained buying behind the rebound.
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Aave's proposed USDG rollover would put borrowers in Pendle collateral yielding 2.98%, below USDT0, USDC and USDG borrowing rates. We compute 0.69% through Feb. 25 at 2x leverage against 1.11% unlevered, so looping needs rewards that still lack terms.
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Traders hold 25,030.6 BTC of $95,000 bitcoin calls expiring Oct. 30 on Deribit, about $2.07 billion in notional. Max pain for that expiry sits near $78,000, and since both figures come from the same contracts, the gap depends on whether the calls were bought outright or sold by holders.
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OKX has launched open-ended USDC loans in Europe at about 2% a year, lending up to 80% of the value of the crypto customers pledge. That interest is small beside the risk to the collateral, which OKX's own terms place outside MiCA's client-asset safeguards.
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Tokenized repurchase agreements average $300 billion to $350 billion a day, the IMF said in its October 8 Global Financial Stability Report. Against the $13 trillion a day some analyses cite for US repo, that comes to 2 to 3 percent of the flow, on venues the fund calls fragmented and short of legal clarity.
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Securitize is bringing tokens of 12 US stocks, including Apple and Nvidia, to Solana, each backed one-for-one by a share. Its NYSE and OKXICE listings wait on venues that have yet to launch, so for now the tokens trade on Securitize's own Solana platform.
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Andrew Cuomo urged the crypto industry to fund both parties, saying the CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate cannot pass without Democrats. Crypto PACs have spent $54.3 million backing Republicans and $26.2 million backing Democrats, Cointelegraph reported, while Kalshi gives Democrats about a 61% chance of winning both chambers.
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BitGo and HashKey Cloud widened their July staking deal into trading, custody and tokenized assets, with staking starting on ETH and SOL. No fees, launch dates, first clients or asset targets were given, so the first test is BitGo's own staking figures.
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Qube Research & Technologies joined Circle, Ripple and SC Ventures in funding OKX at $25 billion, the valuation ICE paid in March. Whether that price was cheap depends on OKX's ICE joint venture winning approval to list tokenized shares of 63 U.S. companies.
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OKX launched OKX Money, an app that turns more than 50 local currencies into dollar stablecoins and pays up to 10% on eligible USDG balances. Who pays for that rate decides how long OKX can compete with local banks and remittance firms for emerging-market savings, and the company declined to say.
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